I love that Dario isn’t even fazed that a dude just crashed through his window. He’s just standing there with a big smile on his face thinking “This is great! You know what would make this even better? If I fixed myself a drink!”

Also I am a little sad that Brandon already knows the secret of the SEVEN ANCIENT AZTEC MEDALLIONS, because I was looking forward to reading his rampant speculation on what they might do. Will they summon the gods to come down to the temple and wreck havoc? Will each winner place the coins into a morpher and transform into a Power Ranger? I can’t wait to find out.

If Pentagon Jr. gets one of the medallions and they are like the old power coins from Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers, does that make him the evil Green Ranger who turns good through the power of friendship? Because holy shit would I laugh at that.

I could go really deep into this idea based one MMPR, you guys. If we separate the White/Green ranger, you get seven anyway. I have to stop myself now or the next hour will be assigning colors to people from LU as if they were going to become Power Rangers.

Heh … Six of the best wrestlers and Kill Shot … I see what you did there.
Oh, great show as usual. That top rope Canadian destroyer looked like it killed him!
The fact that Catrina LITERALLY teleports is so awesome! I mean, it was only kind of implied before and we ran with it.
And the skeleton people … god so weird and off base. I loved it!

Funny though how the only “Under” for this show is a little nothing. Though I though the same thing.
The “Breaking the wall” having the window really lead into the office though man that just blew my mind! What a great idea
They haven’t had very many face changes at all in LU if you noticed so even though Mundo is a better natural fit for a heel, I never saw it coming!

And since I do not know what happens with the medallions I have to speculate about what he said about bringing them together. Is it going to be a thing where they are spread over the roster as people win them and the goal is for one wrestler to acquire them all for some reason??? Man what a great wrestling idea!! … you know, a reason for the fightin?

I love that Alberto is basically Hispanic Ric Flair. He can be heel, he can be face, he can be passive-aggresively insulting his opponents, he can work half a dozen rudo tricks 30 seconds into the match, whatever, the fans still love him.

If he starts insulting fat boys in Spanish one of these days, I will lose it.

Guys, all this talk about Power Rangers is giving me all sorts of fantasy booking goosebumps. I want the seven winners to have to fight “Legends of Lucha” in a Survivor Series style match up where one of the heels is like “F this,” but gets wrecked for not participating and they have to replace him with Drago.

That 7-person match was SO EVERYTHING. And unlike some spotfests, it actually told a bunch of stories ontop of a singular story working through the match. This is the match that explains why I love this show so much and not something like the multi-tag match from Wrestle Kingdom (although I loved the rest of that PPV).

Dario Cueto is pure evil and it’s pretty much the best thing ever. Fixing a drink while El Patron bled on his office floor, then feigning concern about how he was going to have to fix the window (“Geez, would ya look at this now? Gosh golly gee.”), and having to go through pains to gather these ancient, sacred medallions (which we don’t see happen but can only assume he did it like the Dark Wanderer leading Marius around) are just great, great details to his character.

Jack Evans was crazy good, and I like that he’s rocking attire I fucking hate because it makes me hate him instantaneously, which works with his uncanny ability to get the crowd turning on him in a matter of seconds before the match even begins. His abilities and what-a-maneuvers, however, make it easy to like him.

I have a thought, though, but what if the skeleton trios group are new henchmen for Mil Muertes, and Mil is the secret master of Pentagon, Jr., and they all are the prime evils to Cueto’s Diablo? Or maybe they’re all lesser evils and Cueto’s father is one of the prime evils of the ancients? Oh god I love this show.

Another detail I liked about Cueto is that he mentioned spending “his dad’s fortune” on the medallions which implies he’s basically a super entitled jerk whose not really enjoying the fruit of his labour, he was born wealthy and privileged and is just buying people for his own entertainment because he has always gotten what he wanted.

Were you one of the ones biting your tongue saying “It gets even better”?
I couldn’t help but think that when I saw it last night.

Two more small cool things to mention:
1. Pentagon saying “Chinga tu madre” on TV …….. um, I think I know what that means ……
2. Cage totally no selling Sexy star as she laid into him with kicks as he got up.

I was wondering what your “under” for this week would be seeing as the show was pretty much perfect. Lol.

I will say I think you’re being a bit hard on Killshot though. He may be sloppy at times, but he’s got a damn good arsenal, keeps up the pace of the match and definitely doesn’t detract from any match he is in IMO. Now if Blue Demon was the seventh competitor then the comment would have been a bit more reasonable.

From now on, there are only three types of LU backstage segments:
1) Dario Cueto getting shit done in the boardroom/lockerroom/bathroom/hell, any type of room
2) Dizzying 360 degree dolly shot conversations
3) WIDEN TO REVEAL: He’s not wearing pants. FADE OUT

I don’t know if anybody else has talked about this yet, But “El Dragon Azteca”, the guy who’s training Black Lotus in Lucha-Fu? The same Masked Luchador who appeared in the opening scene of the first episode rescuing a nameless kid (who I assume is Prince Puma) from a beatdown by a gang of street thugs, then talks to him about Aztec tradition and the history of Lucha Libre before asking “Will you join us?” I see you there, deep seeded story threads, and I LIKE IT!

If it has already come up, please, let me down easy. I have so little in my life and hoping I’m the first person here to put this together was giving me a feeling of accomplishment I’ve rarely experienced.

So you mean that my two favorite heels on the show (Cuerno, Pentagon), two of my favorite faces on the show (Sexy Star, Fenix), and two of my favorite indie guys (Willie Mack, Brian Cage) are all in one match? FUCKING SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLD

Also, I cannot fucking wait for the inevitable Pentagon/Fenix program, it is going to be absolutely epic.

Johnny Mundo turning rudo and Jannettying El Patron was the highlight of the episode for me, and that’s on an episode that included locker room skeletons, hilarious Team Sitcom interaction with Dario, Jack Evans selling like he got electrocuted, and a ridiculously badass 7-way match. My favorite part was Dario’s reaction when Alberto went through his office window and not even being mad that his window just got obliterated but instead being all types of proud of himself that he had turned Johnny to The Dark Side and unleashed Shadow Mundo upon the world.

I’d forgotten how much I missed Pentagon jr. I tell you, he makes 40 something year old me feel like 6 year old me used to feel about Jake Roberts. Dude is TERRIFYING.

Jack Evans was amazing. Just coming straight in and BAM! Here’s his character. I dig that he’s an old school rudo. Not the incarnation of evil or a supervillain or anything, just a smug, arrogant arsehole that you want to see get his head kicked in.

And yeah, Cueto’s response is the best, “Hey, nice! Liking the old ultraviolence, here! I’m just gonna fix myself something to drink.”

I love that King Cuerno got the chance to do something. The guy is super-awesome, and I’d love to see them do more with him, but because he’s masked here and in AAA, they can’t do the obvious one – have him go for masks and hair. The guy’s a hunter, he should be taking trophies, and in Lucha Libre, that’s masks and hair.
I mean, how awesome would a shot of him chilling in his hunting lodge with a wall covered in mannequin head trophies with masks on them? Pure lucha supervillain.
Unfortunately, they’re never going to unmask El Hijo del Fantasma on Lucha Underground, so there’s no real blow-off to the storyline.

I know Brandon didn’t mean to spoil the medallions thing, but I was under the assumption that if they were giving those things out one at a time, then it would take a while for someone to collect all of them, and it would be an epic moment once they were used. To know they’ll be used fairly quickly is a bit disappointing, but it’s nice to know that it should be entertaining at least.

What I love is that, since Fenix won one of the medallions, he’ll probably hold on to it until the final match with the other medallion holders, but wrestlers could keep challenging for the other medallions even if they lost this match. Not only does it mean the losing wrestlers of the match still have a chance, but you might even form a narrative off it, with one wrestler continuously failing every medallion match but finally winning in the last one, which would make him(her!) a fan favorite a million times over.

Wrestlers being able to re-challenge for the medallions must be a thing, cause I NEED Pentagon Jr. to be one of them. He’s been my favorite luchador in the show since the first time I laid eyes on him, and he’s done nothing since but confirm my initial gut reaction that he’s the man. And by god, after that mutated, twisted, gross and defiance of the laws of physics he pulled on Fenix and Sexy, he damn well deserves it.